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Family Dance Party was launched April 25 as a new offering by the Morton Grove Public Library. The inaugural program filled the library’s activity room with children, parents, grandparents and caregivers. “The intent is to run it every month in the fourth or fifth week when we don’t have story...

Despite the snowy forecast, Lake Glenview Fish Release Day drew a large turnout Saturday to The Glen in Gallery Park. As flakes fell amid a rare spring snowfall, an estimated 1,000 fish were released into the water. “I think they really enjoy nature and just being outside,” said Amy Busey, of Skokie,...

Carol Macejak, a Morton Grove homeowner since 1972, is Wright-Way Rescue’s volunteer coordinator, a volunteer position. Macejak is a breast cancer survivor who has also volunteered for the American Cancer Society. The Pioneer Press caught up with Macejak in Morton Grove at the Dog Egg Hunt at Prairie...

The snowy forecast reduced the number of participants for Clean Up, Evanston!, but volunteers still showed up April 27 to turn soil at locations around town. The three-hour cleanup began before the heavy snow fell. “We had about 120 people sign up, but I had a lot of people back out,” said Paul...

More than 200 students from area high schools participated in the 20th annual Trauma Day April 26 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. The event brought together students from Maine East High School, Maine South High School and Resurrection High School for an event that aims to...

Arlington Heights recently played host to an alternative education basketball league, putting the students and players from around Chicagoland on one court. Nearly 30 teams participated in the Chicago Area Alternative Education League’s annual state invitational basketball tournament and art fair...

Melting conditions from Saturday’s daylong snowfall didn’t keep an anticipated 1,500 people from taking part in Walk MS: Deerfield on Sunday at Deerfield High School. "We're all hardy and used to the weather here in the Midwest, right?" said Rob Multerer, senior director of Walk MS for the National...

Only two of the 37 people hospitalized in connection with a chemical leak Thursday in Beach Park remained Sunday, with the person in the worst shape in serious but stable condition, officials said. Seven of those hospitalized were initially listed in critical condition with “life-threatening” injuries...